This printed copy of Essex Harmony by Jacob
Kimball contains interleaved manuscript music. Its cover indicates it
belonged to Miss Abigail Parran, West Parish, 1800. The printed portion
contains over 100 pages of versus, both secular and non secular, as
well as instructions for the "art of Singing" including musical notes,
timing, syncopation, keys, and tuning the voice. Interleaved in the
front of the volume are several simple, handwritten bars of music with
lyrics.
1 vol. octavo
From the American Antiquarian Society.